Commentary for Numbers 20:21

AND ISRAEL TURNED AWAY FROM HIM. Scripture here shortened [the account, omitting to say] that it was by word of the Almighty that they were commanded, Take ye good heed unto yourselves; contend not with them,²¹⁰Deuteronomy 2:4-5. as Moses explained to them. Thus they turned away from Edom by Divine command, since they could not do anything else because Edom did not let them pass through [his border].

ויט ישראל מעליו, “Israel turned away from him.” The Torah uses an abbreviated text, seeing that the Israelites desisted only because G’d had commanded them to desist and had forbidden them to provoke any confrontation wit the Edomites.

V. 21. ויט ישראל מעליו. Aus Dewarim 2, 4 f. wissen wir, dass ihnen feindselige Gewalt gegen Edom verboten war.